Who Goes There?

The trap is Shasta's own 1951 reprint: it states the second edition on the copyright page and wears a movie tie-in jacket by Malcolm Smith keyed to The Thing from Another World. The Hannes Bok jacket belongs to the 1948 first — a Bok jacket on a copyright page stating a second edition is a married copy, and a Malcolm Smith tie-in jacket is never the first. Later paperback reprints carry their own imprints. No book-club issue of the 1948 printing is documented in the sources consulted; note also that Shasta's first-edition statement practice is not documented as a house-wide rule, so read the copyright page of each Shasta title on its own terms.